2015 and DO - Primary Care Digest

Family Medicine: Finding Its Way on the Federal Research Roadmap [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Challenges persist in securing substantial funding for the Family Medicine (FM) research enterprise, particularly from major sources like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This project emerged from the 2023 Family Medicine Research Summit, and serves as a periodic update to similar analyses conducted in 2008 and 2015.

DO

DO Family Medicine Family Families

Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Drug reimbursement claims were used to identify periods of overlapping exposure to 2 or more prescription drugs between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. Study design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study using provincial administrative health databases. DDI were identified using the list of high-priority DDI of the U.S.

Family Physician

Family Physician Community Insurance Consulting

Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Administrative data from the Optum Labs Data Warehouse 2015-2019 that contains de-identified medical and pharmacy claims and eligibility information for commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees in the US. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Primary Care

Primary Care Management Utilities Chronic Condition

Cardiovascular risk management of patients with depression in Dutch general practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design and analysis: A retrospective matched cohort study using data from more than 70 Dutch general practices collected from 2015 until 2023. Objective: To investigate whether the cardiovascular risk management of Dutch GPs differs in patients with and without depression.

General Practice

General Practice GP Management Patients

>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Create a quantitative Sankey diagram of the flow of US physicians from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into PC specialties: family medicine (FM), general internal medicine (IM), and general pediatrics (Peds). Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015.

Primary Care

Primary Care Medical Education DO

Better Together: Pre-Existing Community Partnerships Assist in Development of Community-Based Service-Learning Curriculum [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2015, there was a noted shortage of community-based service-learning opportunities for residents with the barriers listed as lack of access, underestimation of educational benefit, and time limitations. Population Studied: Starting in 2020, 15 residents annually from the Mankato Family Medicine Residency Program were included.

Community

Community Education DO Family Medicine

Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. Joseph, P.C.,

Family Physician

Family Physician Family Families Primary Care

Descriptive epidemiology of pathogens associated with acute respiratory infection in a study of K-12 school children [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Oregon School District, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA, between January 2015 and June 2023, and before and after emergence of SARS-CoV-2. Population Studied: Children aged 4—12 years meeting criteria for ARI.

Community

Community Family Families Provider

HPV Vaccine Secondary Acceptance: Turning No into a Yes! [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort analysis of electronic health record data and chart review with chi square testing of the association of secondary acceptance of the HPV vaccine with child, clinician, healthcare processes.

Vaccination

Vaccination DO Family Medicine Primary Care

Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

or 7,498/63,834 individuals in the cohort were exposed to at least one high-priority DDI over 12 months in 2015-2016. Outcome measures: 1) yearly prevalence and incidence of exposure to at least one high-priority DDI. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death). Results: 1) 11.7% (95% CI: 11.5-12.0)

Primary Care

Primary Care Emergency Room Insurance ER

Evaluating the National rollout of a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) in English general practice [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Outcome Measures: The rates of hazardous prescribing or insufficient medication monitoring and associated serious harm outcomes were calculated quarterly over the study period April 2015 to December 2021.

General Practice

General Practice Primary Care Clinical Practice Patients

Fetal Infant Mortality Review: The Humanizing Experience of the Family Interview [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Mixed-method convergent design, combining quantitative secondary analysis of records from 158 stillbirth and infant deaths reviewed by Kalamazoo County FIMR from 2015 to 2023, and qualitative semi-structured interviews with 26 national FIMR stakeholders.

Family

Family Families Utilities Education

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. But alcohol and opioids are up there. We’re just asking the bare minimum here for people to take that type of history.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Individuals living in the community aged 65 and older, diagnosed with SMI, who received a first dementia diagnosis between January 2013 and December 2015. Dataset: Health administrative data from 380,124 Quebecers between 1996 and 2016.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Primary Care

Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. A research letter in JAMA Network Open reported that in 2015 and 2020, graduates of U.S.

Primary Care

Primary Care Community Primary Care Physician DO

Primary Care Digest

Family Medicine: Finding Its Way on the Federal Research Roadmap [Economic or policy analysis]

Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

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Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Cardiovascular risk management of patients with depression in Dutch general practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Better Together: Pre-Existing Community Partnerships Assist in Development of Community-Based Service-Learning Curriculum [Education and training]

Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Descriptive epidemiology of pathogens associated with acute respiratory infection in a study of K-12 school children [Acute respiratory infections]

HPV Vaccine Secondary Acceptance: Turning No into a Yes! [Child and adolescent health]

Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Evaluating the National rollout of a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) in English general practice [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Fetal Infant Mortality Review: The Humanizing Experience of the Family Interview [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

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